The New York Times Crossword

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1 [I’m speechless!] 5 Float

9 Italian car, informally 13 Northeast Corridor

train

15 1934 novel made into a hit 1970s BBC/PBS miniseries

17 Hawaii’s “Pineapple

Isle”

18 Bus excursions to see

homes of celebrities 19 At the party where the scientist was demonstrating her new shrink ray, [ZAP!] the punch ladle turned into a ...

21 Analogy words

22 West ___ (furniture

chain)

25 Family

28 When the appetizers were passed around, [ZAP!] the potato wedges turned into ... 34 Exaggerate, as a stage

role

36 Flag down 37 Sweetheart, in mod

ern lingo

38 When the main course was ready, [ZAP!] the six-foot hoagie turned into an ...

42 ___ Faire (historical

festival, informally) 43 Territory

44 Didn’t dive (into) 45 When the dessert was brought out, [ZAP!] the pudding cake turned into a ... 49 Boris Johnson, e.g. 50 Mum’s mum 51 Principal

53 Finally, when the still-hungry guests went back for more, [ZAP!] the additional helpings turned into ... 61 Language that gave us

“aardvark” 64 “Middlemarch”

author

65 Prepare for cold

weather

66 Dig (into)

67 Taobao, the so- called

“___ of China” 68 Citrus drinks

69 Trickle

DOWN

1 Audacity

2 It’s berry tasty!

3 On cloud nine

4 Credit card status 5 Domain of Athena 6 Stage opening

7 Tizzy

8 Bit of weatherproof

ing

9 Devotee

10 ___ Yifei, star of

2020’s “Mulan” 11 Something traded at a

trading post

12 Ding- dong

14 Isn’t well 16 People for whom a

state is named 20 Supposed creators of

crop circles, for short 23 Longing to go to bed? 24 More grinchlike 25 Bracelet item 26 Triangular sail

27 King of the Egyptian

gods

29 Leave in ___

30 Setting for the 1962

hit “Monster Mash” 31 Calculus calculation:

Abbr.

32 Scratch or nick 33 Ramshackle

35 A.C.C. team,

informally

39 Mongrel

40 ___ Lanka

41 Squalid abodes 46 Hostile state

47 Misses abroad 48 Before, in verse

52 Kept informed, in a

way

54 Old presidential

nickname

55 Italian term of

endearment

56 It’s a bust

57 Eleven, to an élève 58 Home for many hippos 59 Magician’s bird

60 Put one’s foot down 61 Dazzle

62 “You’ve hardly aged a

bit,” usually

63 Genetic material